Como, robbery and stabbing in Villa Olmo: a 19-year-old and a 16-year-old Egyptian arrested.

La Como State Police arrested a man yesterday afternoon A 19-year-old and a 16-year-old Egyptian, both irregular and undocumented, accused of complicity in robbery and aggravated personal injury.

The two, already known to the police for police records and several aliases, were stopped a few hours after a violent assault occurred in Villa Olmo walk, to the detriment of a father and son of Indian nationality, on vacation on the lake.

About 13:00, the operations centre of the Como Police Headquarters has received the report of a robbery in progress inside the park of Villa Olmo.

Le Steering wheels when they arrived on site they found the two bleeding victims, the father with a arm injury and the son hit in the back, and numerous witnesses who provided precise descriptions of the attackers, who fled in the direction of the city centre.

According to the reconstruction, the two men would have been surrounded by a group of young North Africans, which after having ripped off a gold necklace from their father's neck, they would have fled.

The victims' attempt to react triggered a violent fight, during which one of the robbers both of them hit with a knife.

Father and son were treated at theSant'Anna Hospital of San Fermo della Battaglia and discharged with a 10 day prognosis each.

Immediate research has allowed us to track down the two suspects in a few minutes:

• il 19ennein via Milano, was on board a scooter, without a shoe and with a knife in your pocket;

• il 16ennein Cadorna Street, he was wearing a blood-stained T-shirt.

The officers also recovered a cell phone and some items of clothing abandoned during the escape.

Taken to the police station, the two were identified e recognized by victims and witnesses as perpetrators of the robbery.

After informing the Public Prosecutors of Prosecutor of the Republic of Como and Attorney for Minors Milano, it was arranged transfer of the two arrested: the 19enne to the Como County Jail, the 16enne at“Cesare Beccaria” Juvenile Penal Institute Milano.

Both will have to answer for conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery and personal injury, pending further decisions by the Judicial Authority.